Adam & Eve & the city / William Carlos Williams.
Accession number:
PML 187791
Published:
Peru, Vt. : Alcestis Press, 1936.
Description:
69 pages ; 24 cm
Credit:
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Notes:
"This first edition ... is strictly limited to 167 copies signed by the author. Twenty copies, numbered I to XX are printed on Didot paper for presentation purposes; 135 copies, numbered 1 to 135 on Worthy Charta paper are for sale; and 12 copies, marked 'out of series' are for review and copyright. Designed and printed by Vrest Orton, and published by J. Ronald Lane Latimer at his Alcestis Press"--Colophon.
Library's copy is number XX.
Library's copy housed in black cloth clamshell box.
Binding:
Green printed wrappers, housed in green paper covered slipcase as issued.
Variant Title:
Adam and Eve and the city
Inscriptions/Markings:
Author's inscription in ink on half title page: L.J. Reynolds, with best wishes, [signed] William Carlos Williams; signed by the author below colophon as issued.
Provenance:
Bookplate of Lloyd J. Reynolds; Carter Burden.
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